Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee...
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. God Himself is not secure, having given man dominion over His works! Avoiding dange...
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task but it my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Discouraged not by difficulties without or the anguish of ages within the heart listens to a secret voice that whispers: "Be not dismayed in the future lies the Promised Land."
I thank God for my handicaps for through them I have found myself my work and my God.
Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within
Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
[Tolerance] is the greatest gift of the mind it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either...
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers but for powers equal to our tasks to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel towards our distant...
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.
My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.